The Admiral of Hogwarts

Because it was the last day before the holiday, the dinner at Hogwarts that night was very lavish. At the same time, everyone at the table wore smiles, immersed in the joy of going home for the holidays.

As for Hugo, this trip to Hogsmeade earned him 1.5 Fate Points, a pre-Christmas gift that naturally made him feel very good.

On the Hogwarts Express, every student seemed very lively. They excitedly discussed their holiday plans and took advantage of the last bit of time they could use magic to joke around.

To find some peace and quiet, Hugo and Hermione found a compartment at the end of the train and sat down, then chatted about the Christmas holidays.

"We're going to Brittany to meet one of my father's business partners, and then we're going to a ski resort near the Alps for a vacation," Hermione said with a frustrated look, holding a letter. "A business vacation."

"After all, the other party is also coming on vacation with their family, so we naturally have to go with them," Hugo said, pointing to a line in the letter. "And there's a good chance that their daughter is one of us."

"How did you figure that out? I don't think our parents or their parents would go around talking about something like that," Hermione said, looking at Hugo in surprise.

"Our father figured it out," Hugo said, pointing to the letter. "His business partner said that both of his daughters are attending a famous international school on the French-Swiss border, but he never mentioned the specific name of the school."

"And our father now introduces us to outsiders in the same way. He'll say that we're studying at a boarding school in Scotland, but he also won't say the name of the school. So he's quite sensitive about this."

"In that case, this trip should be quite interesting." After Hugo's analysis, Hermione's face showed an expression of interest.

Soon, the train pulled into King's Cross Station. Because Mr. and Mrs. Granger were both quite busy that day, they returned with Veneto and Firefly in Hood's car.

"Going skiing in the Alps? That's a great trip," Hood said after chatting about Christmas plans. "Our family plans to sunbathe on the Mediterranean coast. The winter in England is really too cold."

That night, Hugo and the others naturally had a lavish dinner. After lying in bed, the ship girls took turns reporting their respective actions through the Admiral Network.

The most important information came from Stalingrad and the others. After years of fighting, they finally ended the war in the northwestern part of the Balkan Peninsula and reunited some of the fragmented areas.

"We will announce this news on Christmas," Stalingrad's tired but excited voice came from the Admiral Network. "Whether it's the wizarding world or the Muggle world, we have successfully changed history and saved many people."

"More importantly, we now truly have our own port," the Soviet Union added at this time. "In fact, we had already achieved this goal three months ago after the Siege of Sarajevo ended."

"But the end of the war doesn't mean that everything we have to deal with is over," Dzerzhinsky added from the side. "In these past few months, my work has been even busier than during the war, because there are too many unstable factors that need to be eliminated."

"Compared to direct conflicts on the battlefield, the work of eliminating the roots of war is more complex and dangerous. I alone have been assassinated seven or eight times during this period."

"Are you okay?" Hugo asked nervously after hearing what the ship girl said.

"Of course I'm fine. Do you think a 7.62mm bullet, an anti-tank mine, or a drop of poison that can kill ten people can cause any damage to a 17,500-ton cruiser?" Dzerzhinsky said dismissively.

Obviously, for the ship girls, those things that could kill people were not even toys. Instead, they were able to take advantage of such opportunities to uproot unstable factors.

In addition to their actions in the Muggle world, the ship girls also completely controlled the local Ministry of Magic. Then, they used the local cheap labor and abundant natural resources to develop production.

And with the ship girls' strict crackdown on various local dark magic forces and the conditional pardon of dark wizards, the number of dark wizards in the area has been declining sharply, allowing the Soviet Union and the others to gain a foothold in the wizarding world.

The reason for this situation is that the ship girls have strong combat power and a perfect organization, completely defeating the various dark wizard organizations rampant in the region and either capturing or killing those criminals.

Under this high-pressure state, those dark wizards had no choice but to choose to stay away from this area and retreat to Albania after many attempts to resist failed.

Of course, the improvement of public security is also directly related to the ship girls' promotion of the local economy. At least after economic development, more jobs can be provided to local wizards, so that they do not have to resort to crime because of unemployment.

Also, because of the large number of personnel replenishment, the ship girls successfully built a geocentric furnace in a cave in a mountain range in the Karst Plateau, which is indispensable for refining fairy silver and a series of magical alloys.

And relying on the output of this geocentric furnace, the ship girls launched a variety of new magical products, and the Sky-3 broom was therefore able to successfully enter commercial mass production.

"During the pre-Christmas promotion, our new broom was a great success," Massachusetts, who was in charge of sales in this area, said. "At least in the United States, we have gained 1/3 of the high-end broom market."

"However, because production has just gotten on track, there is a shortage in output. Therefore, our market share in Europe can only reach 1/10, but fortunately, several important Quidditch teams have chosen our brooms instead of Firebolts."

After the flames of war in the Balkan Peninsula were extinguished, the biggest benefit for Hugo was that he could finally reduce his investment in the region. Although it will be difficult for the region to have enough output in a short period of time, things are at least getting better.

After resolving one concern, Hugo then focused his attention on the ship girls who had newly joined the group. As he had imagined before, the ship girls had extremely strong adaptability and were able to integrate into the local environment in a short period of time.

For example, whether it was the German ship girls, the Nordic ship girls, or the Japanese ship girls, they had all successfully integrated into the local environment and found their place in the entire ship girl network.

"We have now initially established a trade network that is semi-independent of those built by pure-blood wizards," Hood, the main person in charge, concluded.

"This is very important to us. At least when facing a possible war, we can bypass those pure-blood wizards to mobilize various items."

For the ship girls who were born for war, the materials in the wizarding world that are now controlled by the hypothetical enemy pure-blood wizards are obviously unacceptable, so they have been silently building their own logistics system, and now, this system is beginning to take shape.